And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsForty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Psalms
PoetryJesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
John
GospelsAnd Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.
Exodus
LawAnd the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Revelation
ApocalypticNow go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahWhile the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis
LawJesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Matthew
Gospels / MatthewThat every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
1 Thessalonians
Pauline EpistlesUnto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
Genesis
LawAnd David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Chronicles
HistoryHe spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersShould thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job
Wisdom / JobLay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
1 Timothy
Pauline EpistlesThen said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
Judges
HistoryAnd Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahNow the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,
Exodus
Law / MosesThy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Exodus
LawYea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Proverbs
WisdomAnd David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
2 Samuel
History / Samuel, Gad, and NathanAnd thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.